Bloodthirsty Liberal

H-H-How come President Obama told us that th-there was no time to waste in passing the screw-you-louse bill—not even the 48 hours he and others promised to read its thousand pages (almost a billion dollars a page)—b-b-but the PMiC (Preening Metrosexual in Chief) can wait almost twice that long for the appropriate photo op to sign the d-damn thing?

Capping the biggest victory of his month-old administration, Obama will sign the economic legislation Tuesday in Denver.

The setting, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, is meant to underscore the investments the new law will make in “green” energy-related jobs. It also allows Obama to get away from Washington, where the bill’s passage was a mostly partisan affair, and be among people who may benefit from the huge government intervention.

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How come Congress didn’t take those 84 hours (an hour for every ten pages) the President left the bill just to sit on his desk to debate, even read, what they were voting on?

How come we were on the verge of catastrophe Friday night, yet the PMiC got to take a victory lap with his legislative “victory” for the next three and a half days?

How come, teacher?

Celebrate good times, come on!

I know I’m a borderline racist for pointing this out, but the election hasn’t been held yet. Keep the beer—or chardonnay—on ice, dude. (And the weed in the baggie.)

It’s not a done deal yet, but all indications are that campaign officials are leaning toward Hutchinson Field on the south end of Grant Park as the site of their election night party.

The field is home to softball diamonds, the popular summer Lollapalooza music festival and was the site of the mass pope John Paul held in Chicago nearly 30 years ago.

And don’t I recall a riot forty years ago? How appropriate.

This is where I thank God for Aunt Agatha’s brilliant category invention “Victory Lap”. Planning parties, measuring drapes, designing seals and coins—y’all better hope Obama wins, because he’s going to look like the world’s biggest ass if he doesn’t.

At least the meurseault will still be cold.

What I’ve been saying:

“Let me give you the state of the race today. We have 22 days to go. We’re 6 points down. The national media has written us off. Senator Obama is measuring the drapes, and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections, and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.“

Bill Kristol is on the record as saying that McCain’s recent tactics haven’t worked—but I don’t know what he’s been smoking. The economic meltdown is universally acknowledged to be bad news for McCain, yet he’s stopped sliding in the polls, and is starting to creep back.

I answered a reader’s comment earlier today by saying this: “Since the media won’t investigate Obama’s relationships with Ayers and ACORN, with Rezko and Wright, it falls to McCain to do their job.”

It just doesn’t follow that a candidate who worked for ACORN, “palled around” with domestic terrorists, and attended a black separatist church for twenty years is going to govern like Ronal Reagan—or even Bill Clinton. McCain is absolutely right to point this out. The media damned sure won’t.

Aunt Agatha coined the category “Victory Lap”. I think Obama’s and the media’s attitudes qualify as a victory lap before the race has even been run.

We’ve already noted Barack Obama’s affinity for Latin mottos (vero possumus: “rodent face”), even to the point of swiping them from his nation’s history (”Out of many, we are one“).

Now he’s got a place to put ‘em: his own freakin’ presidential coin:

A company in Birmingham’s [UK] Jewellery Quarter is making commemorative coins for American presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

And if the Democratic candidate is elected to become the most powerful man in the world on November 4, it could open the floodgates for millions of pounds worth of business for the firm.

Windsor, Elizabeth & Windsor has already sold more than 300 limited edition commemorative silver coins to the Democratic Party to hand out to key members of the campaign to elect Obama.

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The coins show Senator Obama’s face, along with a picture of the White House and the legend “President of the United States of America”.

Don’t let anything like an election slow you down, big fella.

What do you think he’s looking at? From the squint, I’d say it’s St. Peter’s Basilica, the next address on his to-do list. No shortage of Latin mottos there.

PS: Ed Morrissey notes:

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his image on coins, which started his downfall. Barack Obama may be the first person in history to start striking coins in his image before taking power. Maybe he just wants to look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills, but this is starting to get … creepy.

Keep your fingers crossed. It looks like the American public ain’t buying his jive.

The significant news coverage Barack Obama is receiving on his foreign trip has not translated into a bounce in his numbers, a just-released FOX News poll shows. Obama now holds the slimmest possible edge over John McCain, leading by just 41 percent - 40 percent in a head-to-head contest. In fact, Obama’s support is down slightly from his 45 percent - 41 percent advantage last month.

Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from July 22 to July 23. During that time Obama was traveling in Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories. In the days before the poll was taken Obama had been touring Afghanistan and Iraq. The poll has a 3-point error margin.

Among independents, Obama has a narrow 2 percentage point edge: 34 percent to McCain’s 32 percent, and 34 percent undecided.

McCain has more strength of support from his party faithful. Fully 86 percent of Republicans back McCain compared to 75 percent of Democrats that back Obama.

There are plenty of Democrats out there that just cannot stand the guy.

- Aggie